An ego the size of texas

Earlier in the week Said the Gramophone did a excellent retrospective of Smog, including a great track "The Well", from his new album A River Ain't Too Much To Love. I have been listening to the new Smog album for a few days now, and I'm hooked. I'll have to admit something, I don't really like any smog albums aside from Red Apple Falls which I think is a great album containing one of my all time favorite songs, "Ex-Con". So as you can imagine, I wasn't really that excited when I heard about the new Smog album--but I should have been. Bill Callahan has a knack for crafting lyrics that spin round and round in my head, "Drinking at the Dam" has a phrase that does just that "Skin mags in the brambles / for the first part of my life I thought all women had orange skin". This perfect tale of early teenage life was almost my selection for today, but in the end, it had to be the second last song on the album "I'm New Here"(I wanted to limit my self to one song, or I would have picked both). Bill Callahan's voice is strong in the mix of this song, so much so that it borders on a capella. Given his conversational singing style, it is as if someone is telling you a funny tale in a deep voice sing song, as he plucks away a few notes on his guitar.

A River Ain't Too Much To Love is released May 30th, I highly recommend going down to your local record store and picking it up.


I'm New Here


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p.s It was a busy week for me, sorry for lack of postings.